Observations on spasmodic cholera : its origin, nature, and treatment : with remarks on epidemic diseases generally / by Henry M'Cormac.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on spasmodic cholera : its origin, nature, and treatment : with remarks on epidemic diseases generally / by Henry M'Cormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    having a store of calomel and opium, good brandy, and some person who could bleed on board. Had such precautions been attended to the unfortunate ships, “ Brutus” and “ Transit,” not to mention others would not have incurred their fate. In country villages or districts, where medical aid is deficient, the proper medicines might be entrust- ed into the hands of the most intelligent and active inhabitants. Many people are anxious as to what they should eat and what they should drink, during the prevalence of Cholera. The grand caution is to avoid' excess; in other respects, the use of sound meat, fish, vege- tables, fruit, wine, spirits, or other food, in due moderation, and at the ordinary intervals, cannot prove injurious. If people will commit ex- cesses in any of these articles, they should also calculate the possible results. Those who commit habitual excesses will do well to avoid them, but they also should reflect, that the ordinary consequences of these cannot be remedied in a day. Every one, however, should be cheerfully prepared to meet all possible contingencies. Death, in the long run, is no evil—it is our final and necessary lot—let us take all rational means to avoid it; but if it must come, whether by Cholera or otherwise, let us calmly resign ourselves into the hands of that Provi- dence, which is ever kind and watchful, both here and hereafter.